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Pierino Prati
Pierino Prati grew up with the
youngsters of Milan. He was first sent to a C league team, the Salernitana, to
begin his career. He began to play professional soccer there, taking the team to
the championship and a consequent promotion to the B league. The next year he
jumped to the B series team of Savona. From there he
returned to Milan, where he played for seven winning years.
He has won:
2 Italy Cups;
2 Cup of Cups;
1 National Championship
(1968/69);
the Champions Cup 1969;
the Intercontinental Cup
1970.
In 1967 he was also Top Scorer of the Italian
championship.
From there he joined the Rome team, where he played for another 5 years
before moving on to Florence (one year) and finally returning to Savona in
series C, where his playing career ended three years later, in 1981.
Pierino Prati also played in 18 national matches, scoring 7 goals.
He
still holds the record for goals (3) scored in a
Champions Cup (Milan-Ajax, 4-1).
Wearing the blue jersey (Italian national team) he was European Champion in 1968
and runner up in the World Cup in Mexico in 1970.
Prati had numerous trainers during his long career; of these Swede
Nils Liedholm and Nereo Rocco, the "Paron" are the
most memorable.
Although he has "hung up his shoes", he has not abandoned the game. After
participating in the "Super Trainer 1st Class" in
Coverciano, he has dedicated his time to training boys.
For seven years he has been an instructor at the AC twin
soccer school Milan and now is in charge of one.
Luigi (Gino) Maldera
Oldest of the Maldera brothers
(well known with his brother Aldo, both ex-Milanists), he grew with the Milan
juvenile teams to the category of Primavera. He then spent two years in Series B
wearing the Monza and Verona jersey.
During the 1968/69 season he began playing in Series A
upon his return to Milan.
Wearing the red and black jersey of Milan he played for 5 seasons, winning :
Champions Cup (1969);
the Intercontinental Cup.

From Milan he went to Catanzaro, during the Series A years of glory. He played
for 6 seasons in Calabria, after which his playing career ended.
Since the end of his professional career Gino Maldera has worked for quite a few
seasons with the juvenile teams of Milan.
Since becoming "Super Trainer 2nd Class" in Coverciano,
he has dedicated his time to training the juvenile team of Milan, from the
1980/81 season to the 1996/97 season.
He then became an instructor at the AC twin soccer school
and now is in charge of one.
Filippo Galli

Filippo Galli is one of the main reasons for the Milan victories throughout
the years ’80 and '90. Born in Monza on 19 May
1963, he started in the A serie with the Milan team shirt on 18 September 1983 .
In his remarkably long career he participated to 15
Championships in the Serie A, attending 254 times (217 with Milan, 21
with Reggiana, 22 with Brescia), 3 Championships in the
Serie B, 33 times with Reggiana and 70 with Brescia,
1 domestic Championship in C/1 attending 28 times
with Pescara and 2 domestic Championships in C/2
with the Pro Sesto.
The longest
period was with Milan, for which he played 37 times in the European Leagues, but
above all he won 3 Champion Cups
(1988/89-1989/90-1993/94) and 5 Italian National
Championships (1987/88-1991/92-1992/93-1993/94-1994/95).
In his prize records it is good to remind of the 8 times with the Italian Team Under 23, the 7 times with The Italian Team Under 21 and the 7 times with the Olympic Team of Italy in Los Angeles in 1984. There are also two promotions obtained in the minor domestic championships: one from the Serie B to the Serie A with Brescia and 1 from the Serie C/1 to the Serie B with Pescara.
Since 1° September 2004 he works in the technical team of the Milan Primavera team and just became Head Coach of the Primavera team (Youth Team) of AC Milan